Wild pollinators, like this bumble bee, account for 80 percent of the pollination around the world. Photo by Joaqium Alves Gaspar.

In a study of fruit crops in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California, SEBS ecologist Rachael Winfree and co-authors from University of Calgary found that the abundance of a few dominant species of wild bees is more important than the diversity of bee species pollinating crops. Read more at Rutgers Today.